Very pleased to see Abuse in there, but unfortunately it didn't load for me. I spent way too many hours in that game back in the day.
Emulated Windows 3.11 in the Browser
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#42Great. Attempting to use this on my 2mb ADSL is exactly like loading it from floopy disk. A true nostalgic expirence.
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#43Ah. Every time I look at the UI, I realize just how much the modern UI/UX degraded. We had clear colorful icons, text labels, scrollbars, clearly distinguishable checkboxes. And now we have UI that actively promotes "rebelliousness" and "being in the know".
We also had the hotdog theme.
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#44Excited for the inevitable "Windows 3.11 - 98K MRR" in pieter's X bio.
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#45You can add Visual Basic 3 and Turbo C
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#46Very pleased to see Abuse in there, but unfortunately it didn't load for me. I spent way too many hours in that game back in the day.
The Pentium boot process brings back memories.
I really would have liked to play Syndicate.
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#47I was expecting it to boot to DOS and then having to typing "win"
autoexec.bat does that for you!
unless you hold shift after POST.
True story, and keep it in your hat if you know it:
I was expelled from highschool about 3 months in to my freshman year for doing this on the library computers to bypass the librarian needing to log us in, because the Mac lab printers weren't working and the report was due next period. Librarian was like "nah i'm on lunch" so i waited like 15 minutes, bypassed, printed, exited windows.
She was fuming, shaking showing printed papers with "autoexec.bat" showing an edit time[1] while she "was on lunch" and i "was the only one in there".
I actually got expelled from that school 3 times, twice for "hacking."
[1] hold shift to get to MS-DOS without restriction, edit AUTOEXEC.BAT to comment out the "security" "software" line, reboot. remove the commented line, reboot.
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#48Started the Visual Basic dev env, added a button to the form, MsgBox "Hello World", and it worked.
So simple, so easy. Those were the days.
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#49I was super happy when I found OMF 2097 in the games 2 folder. That game has insanely good music.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
I beg to differ. I'm 55. Let's go back to say around 1994/5. I've just got a job as the first dedicated IT bod for a pie factory near Plymouth (Devon not MA)! Win 3.11 was pretty much everywhere and was almost reliable - patching wasn't really a thing then in the MS world. By then Pentium (586) was a thing but the majority of machines were 80486, 80386s were still useful. There were also the 386/486 SX/DX and DX2 and…
I did earn some bread with vba as well, and always advocate for efficiency, but I just opened a 12MB xlsx file in LO, and it took a couple of seconds on a 2024 thinkpad. As far as I remember, my Win 3.11 machine (a 486 DX with 4MB RAM and 30MB HDD) wouldn't be able to store or open such a file, let alone recognize the extension. Also, it would call the file 2026022~.XL~ or something. And it took more than a couple of…
That file name thing was from Win95 keeping DOS (FAT) compatibility by introducing FAT32/VFAT: long file names were truncated to standard 8.3 names from DOS (and by extension, Win3.11 too) with fs extensions used to store long file names alongside DOS names. Win95 would show long names, DOS would show shorter ones.
Also, file formats were binary optimized at the time, compared to current XML behemoths compressed with zip. So 12MB file in 1993 is probably something like 100k+ rows, and try that out today.